ImStillMags wrote:
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> Hey Mark......I'm certain that, if you look long enough and hard
> enough at any particular component of any particular food you can find
> a toxin that can possibly do harm.

But there are certain foods which stand head-and-shoulders
above the others as health risks. I wouldn't worry about
carotoxin poisoning from carrots, but I would worry about
saturated fats, oxalic acid, and SXR agonists. Saturated
fats cause cardiovascular disease. Oxalic acid causes
kidney stones (I had one from eating too much spinach).
SXR agonists up-regulate the enzymes of drug clearance.
These are not minor risks. They can be life-threatening.

> Personally I don't focus on the possibility of harm simply because of
> all these 'studies'. By the time you've obsessesd about all of them
> you are down to air and water and both have toxins in them that can
> kill you.

That is the argument for ignoring the scientific evidence.
And it's not true. Only a few foods have a significant
body of evidence that they are risky. Just throwing up
your hands and saying everything is toxic if you pick it
apart is incorrect, and it is nothing more than a defense
mechanism against scientific evidence you don't want to
accept because it goes against what you wish to believe.
Not everything you wish to believe is true.